| Coeloglossum viride var. islandicum (Lindl.) Schulze | |||
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| Family | Orchidaceae — APG family: Orchidaceae | ||
| Synonyms | Peristylus islandicus Lind]l., Coeloglossum viride subsp. islandicum (Lindl.) Sel. | ||
| Common name | frog orchis | ||
| Description | Stem from thick, fleshy, palmately lobed tuberoids; lower stem leaves close to base of stem; spike lax, few-flowered; lower bracts as long as flowers or slightly longer, the upper shorter than the flowers; flowers green or brownish; lip 3-toothed or sometimes nearly entire; remaining 5 perianth leaves together form hemispherical hood over lip. | ||
| Ecology | Meadows, mostly in mountains. | ||
| Taxonomy notes | The Alaskan plant belongs to the arctic-montane var. islandicum, with few- flowered spike; the outer perianth leaves much broader than the inner, and lip entire, or nearly so. C. viride described from northern Europe, var. islandicum from Iceland. |
This is a digital representation of Eric Hultén’s ‘Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants’, which was published by Stanford University Press in 1968. The book was digitized by C. Webb (at UAMN) as part of the Flora of Alaska project, with funding by the US NSF (Grant 1759964 to Ickert-Bond & Webb), and with permission of Stanford University Press. Data and images © 1968 Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. Usage licence: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0. NB: You may find OCR errors; please refer to the hard-copy if in doubt.